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At least the buildings planned for the Times Square area are eclectic. Two are glassy towers designed by late-modernist architectural stars -- one a rather awkward quasi-spiral by Kevin Roche, the other a larger, more elegant tower by Charles Gwathmey. Both, although not their architects' best work, look to...
There is already a center, though, and it is eponymous: Times Tower, originally the newspaper's headquarters, stands on its own triangular island where the three streets come together. Built at the turn of the century, Times Tower (now One Times Square) was the odd but lovable younger sister of...
The new churches have generated something of an architectural renaissance. Drab city centers and run-down villages are sprouting postmodern chapels, delicate Oriental bell towers and high-tech confections of steel girders and stained glass. Not all are distinctive, but Krzysztof Chwalibog, deputy chairman of the Association of Polish Architects...
To suspicious New York City residents, the activity in Far Rockaway, a seaside community of modest homes near the city's John F. Kennedy Airport, may look like a felony in progress. But no need to call the police: the disheveled mansion is scheduled for authorized demolition. Before the bulldozers...
Once, historical-architecture buffs had to prowl in the rubbish of demolition companies to rescue radiators and doors to gentrify their old buildings. But Israel, 40, founder and president of a neat little business called the Great American Salvage Co., has made junk sorting obsolete. His firm, based in Montpelier...